Narendra Modi

By Robert W. Beckman — Eighteen years ago, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a program to foster energy integration in South Asia. The South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Cooperation and Development — generally referred to…

By Sidhanta Mehra — The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is up for re-election in just over a year. Despite the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) unprecedented majority-win in India’s last election in 2014, Modi’s ability to govern effectively has…

By Kartikeya Singh — This month, three of India’s “seven sisters” states (Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland), those located in the country’s ethnically distinct northeast, head to the polls. Situated in a region long plagued by security challenges and poor infrastructure,…

By Richard M. Rossow — Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of India presented the country’s Union Budget for Fiscal 2018–2019 to Parliament on February 1, 2018. This is the last full budget of the Narendra Modi government ahead of the spring…

By Sarah Watson — In early November rumors swirled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration would cancel or sharply curtail the annual Winter Session of India’s Parliament. The possibility brought pointed condemnation from critics of the government, who saw it…

By Sarah Watson — On the surface, President Trump’s first visit to Asia was not about India. Delhi was not on the agenda, and India is not a full member of the regional groupings (ASEAN and APEC) whose summits were…

By Kartik Das – In November India will host the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. This piece is the fourth in an occasional series exploring the climate for entrepreneurship in India, what the Modi government has done to promote…

By Sarah Watson — The World Bank has been one of the foremost advocates for a state-centered approach to India’s power sector challenges. But the bank’s own lending to the Indian energy sector in fact lags overall lending when it…

By Sarah Watson — Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made solar power a key plank of his energy independence and climate change agenda. India has set a target of reaching 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar generation capacity by 2022; it…

By Tushar Madan — In November India will host the 2017 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. This piece is the second in an occasional series exploring the climate for entrepreneurship in India, what the Modi government has done to promote…